Sent from Sir Thomas Gregory Foster
6 Jan 1913
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‘My Dear Pearson,

I do not know whether you have seen the Report of the Galton Laboratory Committee. Having regard to the negotiations pending in relation to the permanent housing of the Laboratory, it seems to me to be a blunder to attempt now to settle the regulations for the administration of the Laboratory.

Further, it seems to me and to the Members of the College Committee that if the Galton Laboratory is to continue to be housed in the College, it must be treated and administered as forming one department with the Biometric Laboratory.

In that case, the detailed administration and the payment of bills would be done for the Department of Applied Statistics by the College Committee with the advice and help of the Galton committee. But perhaps we may talk this over further.

My immediate object in writing to you is to ask for your help in making out an accurate statement of the fees received hitherto for which Hartog had not the sense to ask before he made his report.

I do not know whether it is possible to say what fees really belong to Eugenics, and what fees belong to the Biometric Laboratory. I have been through the books with Mr. Short. Enclosed is the result. Will you please advise us as to which of the fees not marked “E” in the enclosed list can be definitely assigned to the Biometric Laboratory, and to [sic] which of them, if any, should be divided between the two Laboratories.

With kind regards, wishing you a Happy New Year,

I am,

Yours very truly,

T. Gregory Foster.

Provost.’